when I was trying to futiley debate the war with my mom she was all like
“just think, we haven’t seen terrorism again since septermber, something must be going right”
without calling her tons of names, SOMETHING IS GOING RIGHT JUST BECAUSE WE AREN’T being attacked?
Hmm…
then of course, WHAT ABOUT MADRID, BALI, ETC… do those people not matter?
They didn’t seem to be as important to her as Americans, and dammit, they are to me.
We really are arrogant, as a collective.
You know? Madrid just wans’t a big deal out here, it made headlines for a while and died, but 9/11 had the world saddened and paying attention to us for quite a while… sure more people died in 9/11 but still…
Then we have the suspicious Iran/N. Korea train accidents…
But anyway I think they chose the US as an initial target since it would really shock the world, and since we are the only real superpower, it makes them seem tougher than if they just picked on some small country with a crappy army.